@don62snodgrass In those days MNF was 9 pm to 12 am. With most people having no ability to record it and watch later. You had to be a serious football fan to finish the games.
Man I used to love MNF. Even just hearing that dramatic theme music gives me goosebumps and brings back great memories of better days. People, put down the technology, it is killing the human race.
Thanks Fred! Great memories of my childhood, hearing that sounder at the beginning, scrambling to put away homework in time to see the awesome intro, complete with sound checks and camera prep, remembering how cool it was to see a control board! Great memories, indeed!
That was my 1st year of Jr high. I remember shooting baskets with my buddies after school the following Tuesday, all we could talk about, we were excited! Back then you got (before MNF) the chance to see 3 games, 2 were on at the same time. The bears were the 'primary' game here in Indiana. Good times, thank you Mr. Flix.
Those were the days, looking to see if a show was being broadcast in color. If it was, being able to adjust for the right amount of color saturation and brightness was indeed a skill to have.
lol. I remember that. Dial in the grass and uniforms, then get the strangest color skin on peoples faces when you changed to watch the end of Johnny Carson.
Great presentation. This was THE Monday Night Football! My dad let me stay up to watch the games. It's just not the same on ESPN. Interesting side note: The Jets lost the Monday Night debut 31-21. The Jets lost by the same score to the Patriots on the final MNF game televised on ABC (December 26, 2005).
If you're saying you want me to post a full game, Julie, I would like to but I might get a copyright strike to to NFL copyrights. Though there are many full games on RUclips now, their policies are inconsistent.
I've seen this game on tape before, with original commercials and network IDs. I seem to remember a commercial featuring Rod Serling. Almost immediately Howard Cosell started in on Don Meredith, which would become a staple of Monday Night Football for years to come.
J Dial yeah, that's why the 1950s and 1960s were great. It all came crashing down in '64. In '66, the Giants had a 1-12-1 record, and they lost 36 points against the Redskins that season. The score was 72-36.
" This ABC Sports exclusive is brought to you by Marlboro Filtered Cigarettes.... Come to where the flavor is come to Marlboro Country". A few short months later the FCC would ban all cigarette advertising. Then of course the manufacturers upped the advertising in newspapers ,magazines and on billboards. Thanks for taking us in the WABAC Machine Fred.
I liked that the first women's pro tennis tour was sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes, one tour stop had proceeds benefitting the American Cancer Society which was a novel idea, if you smoked too much of them, that group with the getting the funds would take care of you.
I watched with my dad! He brought home beef and ham sandwiches from the Barbecue Pit and got there just a few minutes before kickoff. I think that was the night he let me have my first sip of beer.. it was awful!lol...
One more fact of interest: The New York Jets never had a winning record throughout the 1970s. The best they did during the decade was four .500 seasons (1972,1974,1978,1979). The nadir came in 1976, when Lou Holtz came on as head coach,and resigned after a 3-10 season. A decade of futility followed this game.
I watched the games, alot back then. Lost 40 dollars (alot of money then) on a game between St. Louis and Washington. 2 points in the last 2 minutes...... and I lost. Lol. I moved on to many other things after that, and watched little to no football after that loss. This was actually very nice though. Thank you for posting !!
Fred - AGAIN with another HIT!! I don't normally like things to do with football, but, by God you totally scored a huge win with this video, at least with me anyways!
"Whoa Nelly",the "Mouth",& "Dandy Don".Ah,those were the days.Fox may have updated the game today,but MNF,changed the way we look at it even back then.I mean,3 men in the booth? Unheard of back then.But it worked.And Howard giving you the highlights of Sunday's games.The best thing to do at halftime."Turn out the lights,the party's over".from Dandy Don.Great memories,Fred!
Being 8 years old seeing this, it solidified me in becoming a Jets fan for life, could only watch the first quarter, yet they lost but it was so cool seeing them on ABC. Jets fan through and through.
Luv it Fred! I remember begging to stay up late so I could see the whole Monday Night game...Never happened!!! even though I was 16 years old. Hadda go to bed at 10pm. Period...Fred..you da' man! This game was played in a real city with a concrete and steel stadium....not a plastic bubble. Side note... Homer Jones the man that ran the 2nd half kickoff back for a TD s credited with being the first NFL player to spike the ball after a touchdown when he played for the NY Giants.
I was 12 living in Cleveland suburbs. The game was blacked out then by rule. I listened to.it on radio before falling asleep. The Browns had a 7-7 record that year. But they would make playoffs the next two years before rebuilding in '74-'75.
LUCKY YOU!!! One of the few games my Dad and I would miss, especially when he had to be at work at the factory by 5AM and me at school (8th grade) by 7:30am.
@@michaelalexander43 I really WAS lucky Michael! Usually the one game of the year I didn't go to was the Steelers game when they played it on Saturday night... My dad said the crowd was just too messed up.. Remember the preseason double-headers??? Great stuff...
Sure do Gary, much to my Dad's delight from age 10 (from 1968 until the early 1990's...passed away by '07), I was his road dog for many great times at the stadium.
Interesting, did not know that. I remember a movie "Monday Night Mayhem" that covered the start up of ABC's coverage. John Tutturo played Howard Cosell.
Ford Motor Company released its 1971 models on September 18, 1970 - around the same time as this first MNF game. The Pinto was introduced as a new model that year; seven years later, it would be recalled for those easily ruptured gas tanks. Now in 2019, nearly 50 years later, Ford is dropping all its cars (except Mustang) and concentrating on crossovers, SUV's, and trucks (F-150, 250, etc.). How times have changed.
One of my earliest sports memories. I was 9 and a Browns fan. My dad wasn't wrong often but he was wrong about Monday night football. I remember him talking about it well. He said it would never fly
2 weeks back from Vietnam and a Browns fan (still am 🤪). I loved the game. I think it was the first NFL game I had seen in over a year. I can still remember it and have watched MNF for a long time but it just isn’t the same now
The first prime-time NFL games on network television were actually aired on the now-defunct DuMont network, which aired some live Saturday-night prime-time NFL games in 1953, 1954, and 1955. In the late 1960's, the NFL experimented (as noted above) with a couple of prime-time games a year on CBS and NBC (this was after the 1966 merger which created the Super Bowl and a joint player draft, but before what were the American and National Football Leagues adopted an inter-locking regular-season schedule). These were generally on Monday nights, with the CBS games usually featuring either the Green Bay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys, while the NBC games usually had the New York Jets (with the Jets on the road; back then, televised NFL games were blacked-out in the cities they were played in).
Cleveland Browns owner at that time Art Modell was instrumental in convincing ABC's Roone Arledge that MNF could be a success and it is believed that was one of the reasons that this game between the Jets and Browns was the inaugural MNF game in 1970. That opening day weekend of the 1970 season also had a rematch of Super Bowl 4 between the Chiefs and Vikings in Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Although that game was considered as the game to show for MNF the Vikings shared the stadium with the Minnesota Twins and they had a baseball game scheduled that night and it couldn't be rescheduled
If Hughes Sports had gotten "NFL Monday Night Football", not only would half of ABC's affiliates would have dumped the network to pick-up the games, but supposedly two ABC-owned stations (WXYZ Detroit and KGO San Francisco?) would have dumped the network for the games.
No team wanted to host that first game. Art Modell said I'll do it but you have to get me New York (for the television market) Thus the Jets and Namath.
1970: Football on Monday night. How awesome was that. Saw the first one and a ton more. Side note, Don Meredith was doing the Cowboys-Cardinals game later in the season and the Cardinals crushed the Cowboys 38-10 if memory serves me. He said it was brutal for him announcing that game at the Cotton Bowl.
that game seem to spur the Cowboys to salvage their season as they ultimately did go on to Super Bowl V that season----but ultimately lost to Baltimore
After the Browns won their last NFL Title in '64, this former seven year old fan in Cleveland still didn't fully comprehend what it takes just to win one championship, let the Browns previous ones (1950, 1953 and 1955). It was a good pairing of the two teams for the first MNF game, especially with then recent merger of the AFL and NFL. I just turned13, and wouldn't start playing organized football until as sophomore in HS on the JV team. It was the beginning of a new dimension of sports culture for being bleary eyed on Tuesday mornings. From 8th grade to present day on the job (I'm down to watching maybe 15-20% of the games these days...depending on the match up)
Pete Roselle was arguably the best sports commisioner of all time. He was responsible for selling a product to an entire nation that, not too many years prior to his apppointment, was not that big of a deal. The NFL became the talk of the town under his leadership and bumped MLB down in fan popularity. Given the way things are now with the league, I believe it's glory days are over.
*Red right 88, in the ice bowl. Cardiac arrest. *"The drive" and "the fumble" against the Broncos and Horseface Elway. Painful. Turkey Jones planting Terry Bradshaw, priceless. Although, I'm glad Terry wasn't killed.
tmc che The way Bradshaw twitched on the field was sickly satisfying. The games back then were played for blood. From the time of the “Kardiac Kids,” there was a drunk guy in the bleachers (before it became the “dog pound “) who, throughout a game against Cincinnati, kept asking “Brian, are we gonna win or are we gonna lose? Tell me. I wanna know.” I miss Municipal Stadium.
@@terrenceappleby9315 When they tore Municipal Stadium down I was living in Orchard Park, NY, home of the Buffalo Bills. Coincidentally, my wife was walking in our neighborhood wearing a Browns jacket. An old fellow in a truck drove by, backed up, asked if she would like seats from the stadium. He worked for a contractor tearing down the stadium. He drove back to his house, returned with seats, like those along the 1st & 3rd baselines, numbers 110 & 111. They are sitting out on my porch not 10 feet from me, here in Nashville. You know, I have never lived in a city that has won a Super Bowl. Although I was born outside of Pittsburgh. I miss going to Indians games in the stadium. Buying cheap seats, then the ushers would let us move down behind the dugout after a couple of innings. Miss listening to Pete Franklin arguing with Mr 'Know-it-all.' The good ole days
Roone Arledge was a very good friend of NBC's Curt Gowdy---he approached Mr. Gowdy about being the announcer for NFL Monday night football--Mr. Gowdy wanted to do it but NBC refused to let him out of his contract
Football was a well respected game, as were the players back then. But now, this American is taking a knee against the NFL. I'll watch it again when the players learn to respect the nation and her people that made them millionaires.
Hard to believe but stuff like that just didn't exist back then. It wasn't until coach Joe Walton wore a Jets team sweater on the sidelines in the 80's that the NFL started marketing team apparel for the world.
WOW.... Awesome....Just heard a Interview from Broadway Joe 9-13-19...On the Anniversary Monday Night Game with Baker Mayfield....Joe said he hoped his Jets would win...Because HIS performance was Bad....(They didn't 23-3)...None the less.....Class Act...Broadway Willie Joe Namath....👍
The Jets lost that game, but statistically Namath was pretty good overall. He hit 18 of 31 for 300 yards 1 td and 2 picks. The Jets outgained the Brown 2 to 1, 450 yards to 220. 300 yard games back then was a pretty big deal.
I remember that game well. Loved the intro. I watched every Monday night game until the Browns left Cleveland. "Jump Art, jump." Then, as the thug culture gradually entered the NFL I watched less and less NFL, regardless of the day of the week. With "the knee" I will never return to watch another game.
tmc che fArt Modell screwed Cleveland twice. The first time was when he fired Coach Paul Brown. How many times did he make Modell pay for it when he set up shop in Cincinnati and regularly beat the crap out of the Browns?
@@ChristopherUSSmith Don't confuse confidence and the inability to be interviewed smoothly with arrogance. The NFL is about winning. Something, sadly, the Browns have yet to do. As far as cheating goes, without exception in every single play in the NFL, players are cheating. That's why they have referees and penalties.
2:15 - that sounds like a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass instrumental being piped through the stadium. (I gotta hope that’s correct at the very least - because, darn, it sure is trivial!)
@Oilan Greeze...you are correct sir. That is a Burt Bacharach song made popular by Herb Albert called "This Guy's in Love" which Herb sang vocal"s. Not sure what we are hearing. Could be a generic cover? Didn't get to hear much. Good call.
Oilan Greeze....I did not know that Herb Albert sang. I did know a guy sung it. It took me thirty minutes to track it down. Did not know the name of the song either LOL. All I could think of was B.J. Thomas. If I was smart I should have started WITH Herb Albert...My brain hurts.
abc sports and nfl films we bad ass of their day and we need NFL films back...they could make any sports game into the most maga game event in history...even a tiddly wink game would be bad ass lol
NFL films, at the time, combined excellent writing, great photography and superb music by Sam Spence to enhance the NFL experience.Those films helped me become a fan.
FredFlix oh most definitly!!! i was not or much of a football fan but i loved watching nfl films highights of games on weekends . i understand u got access to old shows look for them old nfl fils vault..open that bad boy up. that deserves its own channel or play list
The good old days, when the sport of football was about football and not a bunch of spoiled millionaires disrespecting the flag and our country. But l boycotted the NFL last year and l am doing the same thing this year. College football rules, don't miss the NFL.
It brings back great memories hearing the theme. Like a lot of people said back when football was football. Not the national felon league it is today and best of all no Coleen CrapperNappy Head disrespecting our flag, military and veterans.
BACK THEN PLAYERS WERE NOT SHOW OFFS THEY DID NO DANCING OR IDIOTIC BEHAVIOR AFTER SCORING A TOUCHDOWN. THAT NONSENSE BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1980'S AS I RECALL.
I remember a lot of bleary eyed Tuesday mornings going to school after staying up to watch Monday Night Football! Good ole days...
MNF is why they used to say dont buy a car built on Tuesday for the same reason, autoworkers came in on Tuesday tired, hung over, or absent.
Those are good reasons! lol
Same here, Don. As long as I kept my grades up, my parents let me stay up and watch, lol.
@@40intrepid I heard that was Friday. But you'd have to decipher the Data Plate Code to find out what day of the week it was built on.
@don62snodgrass In those days MNF was 9 pm to 12 am. With most people having no ability to record it and watch later. You had to be a serious football fan to finish the games.
BACK WHEN FOOTBALL WAS CAN'T MISS TELEVISION
Man I used to love MNF. Even just hearing that dramatic theme music gives me goosebumps and brings back great memories of better days. People, put down the technology, it is killing the human race.
Thanks Fred, good memories from a time that will never be repeated.
You're welcome, Gregg.
Gregg Goss I agree things and people were much better than now!!!!!
Thanks Fred! Great memories of my childhood, hearing that sounder at the beginning, scrambling to put away homework in time to see the awesome intro, complete with sound checks and camera prep, remembering how cool it was to see a control board! Great memories, indeed!
I appreciate that, Jeff.
That was my 1st year of Jr high. I remember shooting baskets with my buddies after school the following Tuesday, all we could talk about, we were excited! Back then you got (before MNF) the chance to see 3 games, 2 were on at the same time. The bears were the 'primary' game here in Indiana. Good times, thank you Mr. Flix.
I can't claim to remember the first Monday Night Football game, I was only 5, but I watched a lot of them as I got older.
This still sounds 70s Fantastic
Those were the days, looking to see if a show was being broadcast in color. If it was, being able to adjust for the right amount of color saturation and brightness was indeed a skill to have.
lol. I remember that. Dial in the grass and uniforms, then get the strangest color skin on peoples faces when you changed to watch the end of Johnny Carson.
We were not allowed to touch my dads 19" RCA XL 100
Terrence Appleby my mom never got the nack of getting the color right -- we kids would not let her touch it lol
My uncle Turk choked the piss out of my pet squirrel Mr bonkers, but the browns won, the browns wooooon🤣🤣🤣
Great presentation. This was THE Monday Night Football! My dad let me stay up to watch the games. It's just not the same on ESPN. Interesting side note: The Jets lost the Monday Night debut 31-21. The Jets lost by the same score to the Patriots on the final MNF game televised on ABC (December 26, 2005).
thanks for this shared with my 89 yr old mother who will not watch the game now love it she would love to she a full game Fred
If you're saying you want me to post a full game, Julie, I would like to but I might get a copyright strike to to NFL copyrights. Though there are many full games on RUclips now, their policies are inconsistent.
Wow. What a memory for me being a young lad getting to stay up and watch this with my dad
I've seen this game on tape before, with original commercials and network IDs. I seem to remember a commercial featuring Rod Serling. Almost immediately Howard Cosell started in on Don Meredith, which would become a staple of Monday Night Football for years to come.
I have the entire game with commercials and I think you're right about Serling.
“A game between two powers” The Jets and Browns. My times have changed.
And that was the time my team, the Giants, sucked.
J Dial yeah, that's why the 1950s and 1960s were great. It all came crashing down in '64. In '66, the Giants had a 1-12-1 record, and they lost 36 points against the Redskins that season. The score was 72-36.
I've always wanted to see this from the premier episode! Thank you Fred!
" This ABC Sports exclusive is brought to you by Marlboro Filtered Cigarettes.... Come to where the flavor is come to Marlboro Country". A few short months later the FCC would ban all cigarette advertising. Then of course the manufacturers upped the advertising in newspapers ,magazines and on billboards. Thanks for taking us in the WABAC Machine Fred.
Cancer transmitting device.
Glad to do it, Russ.
"Come to where the cancer is......Come to Marlboro Country!"
I liked that the first women's pro tennis tour was sponsored by Virginia Slims cigarettes, one tour stop had proceeds benefitting the American Cancer Society which was a novel idea, if you smoked too much of them, that group with the getting the funds would take care of you.
Really?!?!??
I watched with my dad! He brought home beef and ham sandwiches from the Barbecue Pit and got there just a few minutes before kickoff. I think that was the night he let me have my first sip of beer.. it was awful!lol...
Great memory *onefatstratcat* , Thanks for sharing, that's what Fred Flix is all about.
To onefatstratcat:It's called growing up or if you prefer male bonding.Glad you had fun that Monday night.
One more fact of interest: The New York Jets never had a winning record throughout the 1970s. The best they did during the decade
was four .500 seasons (1972,1974,1978,1979). The nadir came
in 1976, when Lou Holtz came on as head coach,and resigned
after a 3-10 season. A decade of futility followed this game.
I watched the games, alot back then. Lost 40 dollars (alot of money then) on a game between St. Louis and Washington. 2 points in the last 2 minutes...... and I lost. Lol. I moved on to many other things after that, and watched little to no football after that loss. This was actually very nice though. Thank you for posting !!
$40 was a big loss in those days, Randall. Like losing over $200 today.
Lol, the loss of 2, 20 dollar bills was alot to me. I was poor.
LOL I thing $40 is a big loss today, in 2018! Shit, that's a tank of gas for cripes sake!
Back when the goal post crossbar was parallel to the goal line.
Fred - AGAIN with another HIT!! I don't normally like things to do with football, but, by God you totally scored a huge win with this video, at least with me anyways!
Thanks, Hank, and your scoring analogy was not lost on me.
LOL Caught that, eh?? nice!
"Whoa Nelly",the "Mouth",& "Dandy Don".Ah,those were the days.Fox may have updated the game today,but MNF,changed the way we look at it even back then.I mean,3 men in the booth? Unheard of back then.But it worked.And Howard giving you the highlights of Sunday's games.The best thing to do at halftime."Turn out the lights,the party's over".from Dandy Don.Great memories,Fred!
You said it, Mike. We'll never see that kind of combination in a booth again.
Ahh, Monday Night Football. The "hair of the dog" to soothe your Sunday football hangover.
Being 8 years old seeing this, it solidified me in becoming a Jets fan for life, could only watch the first quarter, yet they lost but it was so cool seeing them on ABC. Jets fan through and through.
Luv it Fred! I remember begging to stay up late so I could see the whole Monday Night game...Never happened!!! even though I was 16 years old. Hadda go to bed at 10pm. Period...Fred..you da' man!
This game was played in a real city with a concrete and steel stadium....not a plastic bubble.
Side note... Homer Jones the man that ran the 2nd half kickoff back for a TD s credited with being the first NFL player to spike the ball after a touchdown when he played for the NY Giants.
I love the domed stadiums of nowadays. I'm always into retro stuff, but that's a good modern ideas. I wish my team (Giants) played in a dome.
Stevie G , I've got nothing against modern stadiums at all. Dome or open air. I was just reminiscing about days gone by...
started at 9 pm couldn't stay up to watch it all.
Fred Flix always makes me cry man! I wanna go back so bad
I was 12 living in Cleveland suburbs. The game was blacked out then by rule. I listened to.it on radio before falling asleep. The Browns had a 7-7 record that year. But they would make playoffs the next two years before rebuilding in '74-'75.
I was there!! At this game... I know it was the largest crowd at Cleveland Muni at the time... think it still holds that record - 86,000+
LUCKY YOU!!! One of the few games my Dad and I would miss, especially when he had to be at work at the factory by 5AM and me at school (8th grade) by 7:30am.
@@michaelalexander43 I really WAS lucky Michael! Usually the one game of the year I didn't go to was the Steelers game when they played it on Saturday night... My dad said the crowd was just too messed up.. Remember the preseason double-headers??? Great stuff...
Sure do Gary, much to my Dad's delight from age 10 (from 1968 until the early 1990's...passed away by '07), I was his road dog for many great times at the stadium.
Even though ABC began Monday Night Football in 1970, CBS did experiment with telecasting monday night games between the
1966-69 seasons.
Interesting, did not know that. I remember a movie "Monday Night Mayhem" that covered the start up of ABC's coverage. John Tutturo played Howard Cosell.
Ford Motor Company released its 1971 models on September 18, 1970 - around the same time as this first MNF game. The Pinto was introduced as a new model that year; seven years later, it would be recalled for those easily ruptured gas tanks. Now in 2019, nearly 50 years later, Ford is dropping all its cars (except Mustang) and concentrating on crossovers, SUV's, and trucks (F-150, 250, etc.). How times have changed.
One of my earliest sports memories. I was 9 and a Browns fan.
My dad wasn't wrong often but he was wrong about Monday night football. I remember him talking about it well. He said it would never fly
Loved the intro music to the broadcast... Subscribed...
Welcome aboard, Henry.
2 weeks back from Vietnam and a Browns fan (still am 🤪). I loved the game. I think it was the first NFL game I had seen in over a year. I can still remember it and have watched MNF for a long time but it just isn’t the same now
This game was featured in the block buster film 'Monday night mayhem'
The first prime-time NFL games on network television were actually aired on the now-defunct DuMont network, which aired some live Saturday-night prime-time NFL games in 1953, 1954, and 1955.
In the late 1960's, the NFL experimented (as noted above) with a couple of prime-time games a year on CBS and NBC (this was after the 1966 merger which created the Super Bowl and a joint player draft, but before what were the American and National Football Leagues adopted an inter-locking regular-season schedule).
These were generally on Monday nights, with the CBS games usually featuring either the Green Bay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys, while the NBC games usually had the New York Jets (with the Jets on the road; back then, televised NFL games were blacked-out in the cities they were played in).
Thanks for that information 🏈
Nice work. Enjoyed it.
Gifford, Cosell and Meredith were great together. The bummer was the 9 p.m. start time. I almost never watched an entire game.
Cleveland Browns owner at that time Art Modell was instrumental in convincing ABC's Roone Arledge that MNF could be a success and it is believed that was one of the reasons that this game between the Jets and Browns was the inaugural MNF game in 1970. That opening day weekend of the 1970 season also had a rematch of Super Bowl 4 between the Chiefs and Vikings in Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota. Although that game was considered as the game to show for MNF the Vikings shared the stadium with the Minnesota Twins and they had a baseball game scheduled that night and it couldn't be rescheduled
If Hughes Sports had gotten "NFL Monday Night Football", not only would half of ABC's affiliates would have dumped the network to pick-up the games, but supposedly two ABC-owned stations (WXYZ Detroit and KGO San Francisco?) would have dumped the network for the games.
Weird to think that was the first time those iconic franchises EVER played each other!
T Porter before that year they were 2 different leagues, AFL and NFL, they didn’t play each other. Cleveland was in the NFL.
Remember the early days, Monday night football was an event!
No team wanted to host that first game. Art Modell said I'll do it but you have to get me New York (for the television market) Thus the Jets and Namath.
1970: Football on Monday night. How awesome was that. Saw the first one and a ton more. Side note, Don Meredith was doing the Cowboys-Cardinals game later in the season and the Cardinals crushed the Cowboys 38-10 if memory serves me. He said it was brutal for him announcing that game at the Cotton Bowl.
Robert Keefer And high time for ESPN to move it back to ABC, where it belongs. IMHO
I remember that game, the crowd was cheering Dandy Don urging him to put on a uniform and get back on the field yet that night
I thought I heard that Dandy Don was quite inebriated during that game as well.
DackupDoo Dandy Don wasn't the first broadcaster guilty of BUI, and won't be the last either. :)
that game seem to spur the Cowboys to salvage their season as they ultimately did go on to Super Bowl V that season----but ultimately lost to Baltimore
thank you for the great history
Football? On Monday nights? That would never work!
That was on my birthday. They really had some primitive graphics back then.
After the Browns won their last NFL Title in '64, this former seven year old fan in Cleveland still didn't fully comprehend what it takes just to win one championship, let the Browns previous ones (1950, 1953 and 1955).
It was a good pairing of the two teams for the first MNF game, especially with then recent merger of the AFL and NFL. I just turned13, and wouldn't start playing organized football until as sophomore in HS on the JV team.
It was the beginning of a new dimension of sports culture for being bleary eyed on Tuesday mornings. From 8th grade to present day on the job (I'm down to watching maybe 15-20% of the games these days...depending on the match up)
Was watching that night yup !
I watched that game. Tnx Fred....
You're welcome, Paul.
Keith Jackson has always been my favorite announcer
He was an arrogant asshole.
I watched this game when it debut in 1970. I thought it was greatest idea in tv history.
Pete Roselle was arguably the best sports commisioner of all time. He was responsible for selling a product to an entire nation that, not too many years prior to his apppointment, was not that big of a deal. The NFL became the talk of the town under his leadership and bumped MLB down in fan popularity. Given the way things are now with the league, I believe it's glory days are over.
Pete Roselle and Joe Namath hated each other.
You have to go back almost 50 years to see a Cleveland victory? Sounds about right.
Christopher Conard That’s canard, Conard. It’s only been since the end of 2016, but it does seem like 50 years.
*Red right 88, in the ice bowl. Cardiac arrest.
*"The drive" and "the fumble" against the Broncos and Horseface Elway. Painful.
Turkey Jones planting Terry Bradshaw, priceless. Although, I'm glad Terry wasn't killed.
tmc che The way Bradshaw twitched on the field was sickly satisfying. The games back then were played for blood. From the time of the “Kardiac Kids,” there was a drunk guy in the bleachers (before it became the “dog pound “) who, throughout a game against Cincinnati, kept asking “Brian, are we gonna win or are we gonna lose? Tell me. I wanna know.” I miss Municipal Stadium.
@@terrenceappleby9315
When they tore Municipal Stadium down I was living in Orchard Park, NY, home of the Buffalo Bills. Coincidentally, my wife was walking in our neighborhood wearing a Browns jacket. An old fellow in a truck drove by, backed up, asked if she would like seats from the stadium. He worked for a contractor tearing down the stadium. He drove back to his house, returned with seats, like those along the 1st & 3rd baselines, numbers 110 & 111. They are sitting out on my porch not 10 feet from me, here in Nashville.
You know, I have never lived in a city that has won a Super Bowl. Although I was born outside of Pittsburgh. I miss going to Indians games in the stadium. Buying cheap seats, then the ushers would let us move down behind the dugout after a couple of innings. Miss listening to Pete Franklin arguing with Mr 'Know-it-all.'
The good ole days
The original Cleveland Browns (1946-95) had stable ownership.
hi great thank you I love it
This is when football was fun to watch!
Monday Night Football back before ESPN ruined it.
Blame Diseny, as it acquired both ABC and ESPN during the mid 1990's
THANKS FRED
You're welcome, Gerard.
I thought it was English soccer from ITV sport.
You either liked Howard Cosselle or hated him, but I enjoy the half time highlights by Howard if the previous days games.
The next year cigarette advertising on t.v was outlawed.
I watched that game. Was a big fan of Namath at that time. Was deflated when Namath threw that interception.
First Monday night game I remember watching is when Lawrence Taylor broke joe theismans leg, I was 9 at the time.
Roone Arledge was a very good friend of NBC's Curt Gowdy---he approached Mr. Gowdy about being the announcer for NFL Monday night football--Mr. Gowdy wanted to do it but NBC refused to let him out of his contract
OCT. 1980 I WAS WATCHING MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL WHEN FRANK ANNOUNCED JOHN LENNON HAD BEEN SHOT IN NEW YORK.
Howard Cosell announced it. It's on RUclips. I remember watching that as well and waking my brother up to tell him.
Steven Cohn John Lennon. DOD 12.08.1980
Ahh, Fred ......now I gotta youtube the game.
My story embodies everybody else's on here... I was six when I watched this very first game..
Beautiful
Three days after Jimi Hendrix passed away ...
...and two weeks before Janis Joplin did.
Browns had a wide receiver by the name of Fair Hooker.
Scot Wirth. Yep 👍🏻
As a browns fan they didn’t even show the game in Cleveland because of the blackout policy
The pixel was huge back then!
i WAS THERE!
it would’ve been cool if the first monday night football game of the 100 nfl season was jets and browns
Football was a well respected game, as were the players back then. But now, this American is taking a knee against the NFL. I'll watch it again when the players learn to respect the nation and her people that made them millionaires.
I'm taking a knee against the NFL
Kelton Mahan Stop being an @$$
Monday nite games started 9pm,Eastern time,back then
Back when cigarettes were advertised
Dandy Don, the Forgotten Cowboy QB.
Fans didn't wear team colors, much less jerseys, back then.
Hard to believe but stuff like that just didn't exist back then. It wasn't until coach Joe Walton wore a Jets team sweater on the sidelines in the 80's that the NFL started marketing team apparel for the world.
Remember Tom Landry? Suit and tie on the sideline.
Owners, greed, baby players, uniforms, the game sure sucks now. RIP N.F.L. Only greed and ugly uniforms are left.
WOW....
Awesome....Just heard a Interview from Broadway Joe 9-13-19...On the Anniversary Monday Night Game with Baker Mayfield....Joe said he hoped his Jets would win...Because HIS performance was Bad....(They didn't 23-3)...None the less.....Class Act...Broadway Willie Joe Namath....👍
Thank you amazing memories and times, before athletes became disloyal & greedy and people became angry fools.
You're welcome, Southern Folk.
...that's so cool...
The Jets lost that game, but statistically Namath was pretty good overall. He hit 18 of 31 for 300 yards 1 td and 2 picks. The Jets outgained the Brown 2 to 1, 450 yards to 220. 300 yard games back then was a pretty big deal.
I remember that game well. Loved the intro. I watched every Monday night game until the Browns left Cleveland. "Jump Art, jump." Then, as the thug culture gradually entered the NFL I watched less and less NFL, regardless of the day of the week. With "the knee" I will never return to watch another game.
tmc che fArt Modell screwed Cleveland twice. The first time was when he fired Coach Paul Brown. How many times did he make Modell pay for it when he set up shop in Cincinnati and regularly beat the crap out of the Browns?
@@ChristopherUSSmith You got that right. Art also fired Bill Belichick. But our home town fans, with rare exception, wanted Coach Belichick fired.
tmc che Belicheat was even more arrogant than fArt Modell.
@@ChristopherUSSmith Don't confuse confidence and the inability to be interviewed smoothly with arrogance.
The NFL is about winning. Something, sadly, the Browns have yet to do. As far as cheating goes, without exception in every single play in the NFL, players are cheating. That's why they have referees and penalties.
tmc che I'm talking about Belicheat being arrogant enough to cheat to win when he has no need to cheat. (Spygate, Deflategate)
I would turn down the sound of the TV and listen to Jack Buck do the games!
We did that in Denver too when bob martin was the radio announcer.
You know this was a looooong time ago, the Browns were good!
2:15 - that sounds like a Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass instrumental being piped through the stadium. (I gotta hope that’s correct at the very least - because, darn, it sure is trivial!)
@Oilan Greeze...you are correct sir. That is a Burt Bacharach song made popular by Herb Albert called "This Guy's in Love" which Herb sang vocal"s. Not sure what we are hearing. Could be a generic cover? Didn't get to hear much. Good call.
David B. Ahh... good old Burt Bacharach, he wrote some of the great ones.
Oilan Greeze....I did not know that Herb Albert sang. I did know a guy sung it. It took me thirty minutes to track it down. Did not know the name of the song either LOL. All I could think of was B.J. Thomas. If I was smart I should have started WITH Herb Albert...My brain hurts.
abc sports and nfl films we bad ass of their day and we need NFL films back...they could make any sports game into the most maga game event in history...even a tiddly wink game would be bad ass lol
NFL films, at the time, combined excellent writing, great photography and superb music by Sam Spence to enhance the NFL experience.Those films helped me become a fan.
FredFlix oh most definitly!!! i was not or much of a football fan but i loved watching nfl films highights of games on weekends . i understand u got access to old shows look for them old nfl fils vault..open that bad boy up. that deserves its own channel or play list
FredFlix The great visions of father and son Ed and Steve Sabol. RIP :(((((
Jack Torrance Indeed. Add in Roone Arledge and instant replay, too.
Jack Torrance I'm with you there. They've come a long way since then too.
Ah, when football was in 15p
The good old days, when the sport of football was about football and not a bunch of spoiled millionaires disrespecting the flag and our country. But l boycotted the NFL last year and l am doing the same thing this year. College football rules, don't miss the NFL.
I watched this game. The Jets were moving up and down the field at will. They made too many untamed penalties that cost them the game.
0:43 Oh yeah feel that groove and get down wit ya bad self
It brings back great memories hearing the theme. Like a lot of people said back when football was football.
Not the national felon league it is today and best of all no Coleen CrapperNappy Head disrespecting our flag, military and veterans.
how about that... i still smoke marlboros! and it’s howie cossell
I was 13 years old. A time when there was grass stains, mud, snow, rain, heavy wind and pure guts football!! Oh yea, the Vietman war! oh yea!!
Sponsored by Marlboro cigarettes... my god if that was today people would be losing their minds lol
More! More! More!
Come to where the cancer is......Come to Marlboro Country!
It was a gamble but it paid off
BACK THEN PLAYERS WERE NOT SHOW OFFS THEY DID NO DANCING OR IDIOTIC BEHAVIOR AFTER SCORING A TOUCHDOWN. THAT NONSENSE BEGAN IN THE EARLY 1980'S AS I RECALL.